Thread: LWN on Pervasive
In case anyone hasn't seen it already, LWN recently published two editorials on the Pervasive announcement and on "The PostgreSQL business" in general: http://lwn.net/Articles/193740/ http://lwn.net/Articles/194561/ -Neil
Neil Conway wrote: >In case anyone hasn't seen it already, LWN recently published two > > Neil, thank you for refering the community to those articles. I found them informative, especially the responses. I don't know why, but these articles WERE NOT picked up by my Google alerts. Michael -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.3/423 - Release Date: 8/18/2006
On Aug 20, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Neil Conway wrote: > In case anyone hasn't seen it already, LWN recently published two > editorials on the Pervasive announcement and on "The PostgreSQL > business" in general: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/193740/ > http://lwn.net/Articles/194561/ I like how he wrote the first article without doing any research and then used the second to wipe some egg off his face. :) -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 05:14:19PM -0500, Jim Nasby wrote: > On Aug 20, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Neil Conway wrote: > >In case anyone hasn't seen it already, LWN recently published two > >editorials on the Pervasive announcement and on "The PostgreSQL > >business" in general: > > > >http://lwn.net/Articles/193740/ > >http://lwn.net/Articles/194561/ > > I like how he wrote the first article without doing any research and > then used the second to wipe some egg off his face. :) Only some of it. He's still missing all the businesses that sliced huge hunks off their development and maintenance costs by using PostgreSQL. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote!